Wendy and I will be at the Maple Leaf Thursday, 11/06/2007. FYI

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So, the comment spam around here has been insane. I installed a captcha, and hopefully that eliminates the problem for now. I also fixed the Tuktoyaktuk post which wasn't showing up correctly, which I know is a favorite. I also got an automated cross-poster working, so that my blog entries will cross post to live journal automatically.

Received in a spam email today:

"For some time she had been doing the worst thing possible for me - standing still. Who could hate me this much. But the ravens are different. But the ravens are different. This program is written for Xlib. And they did not even ask her opinion. A parameter is invalid. If there are no separator characters found, source wide string S is returned, and source wide string itself becomes empty. Starting up for the first time. This time she would let him get away with his version. I glimpsed something of her leg as she did so, and it was perfectly formed. This is a well known bug in IE5."

Happy Birthday to moliere!!!

I hope work isn't too hard on you and delivers you back to me in one piece for The Police tonight!

*sloppy kisses*

Friday Five... stolen appropriately

1. Who was your first crush?
Christine VanAntwerp. She moved to Alaska when I was 12 with her Father Randy VanAntwerp and her brother of the same name. Haven't seen the family since.

2. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
I am an introvert with much extrovert training under my belt, so I fake it well. Sometimes it takes me a bit to recall all the proper social scripts, so I pretend to be tired until I get into the swing of things.

3. What is your favorite non-sexual thing you like to do with the love of your life?
Travel. Anywhere. Or everywhere.

4. Name one quirky habit your partner does that either annoys you or makes you grin.
General silliness and her calling my BS. That's 2, but hey, she's twice the woman, so there.

5. Do you believe in monogamous relationships?
I believe that if you have feel the need to have beliefs in what is a relationship then you are over complicating the entire process through unnecessary meta abstraction. What you enjoy doing should not be part of your belief system. I like cigars. That is not a belief, that is a preference. I'm not going to make my enjoyment of cigars some type of quasi religious, life defining affiliation. Neither will I attempt the practice with my preferences in interpersonal communications. I guess that makes me an agamotic.

That being said, the observations of self proclaimed polyamorists (although this term is often misused IMO, being confused with polygamist, as little room for distinction is made for monoamorist vs. monogamist) is a source of great amusement, their confused antics generally fueled by their unwillingness to differentiate between "who they are" and "what they enjoy", and constantly looking for affirmation in all the wrong places (related would be the issue of how personal preference for penile receptacle could possibly have anything to do with voice tonal quality and the inability to control gesturing... but that's getting off point.) Monogamists have similar issues, but their antics are not as amusing, being well documented to the point of cliche.

Comment and I will:

1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with a song/film.
3 - Tell a random fact about you.
4 - Tell a first memory about you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8 - In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ [or blog].

We are having a birthday party for porninspiring AKA Christina, and obaymenow AKA Jessica at the Maple Leaf in Bellevue (NE 8th and 148th) this Saturday the 24th at 10pm onwards. Bring yourself.

Today I actually comprehended a monad.

Not just *used* a monad... I actually understood what I was doing.

*dances*

Current Mood: giddy

As I brought up in a previous post, a problem with Koza style genetic programming (GP) is the absence of recursion and any type of variable binding which causes means that the algorithm must unroll all loops and repeat statements because it can't bind statements to variables in order to perform loops. So, in the spirit of Tina Yu, we decide to introduce lambda expression to the set of primitives. Read More...

Current Mood: exhausted

Ok. for type inference, let me work through this again.

First, lets assume a requirement to return int:read more...

I like Gas Nets. They show great promise. However, there are a couple things I don't like about them, and I think I have devised a solution to these issues. Read More...

I had visions of using Hindley-Milner style strong typing to constrain the search space of a Koza GP tree. After much struggling with the concept in my head, and not being totally up on my pi calculus, I think I have grokked the impasse. The problem is this: Read More...

1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague—they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
15. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
16. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
21. The passive voice should not be used.
22. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
23. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
24. Who needs rhetorical questions?
25. Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
26. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
27. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. Be more or less specific.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
51. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
52. And always be sure to finish what

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Anyone know of a good library that does realistic articulated human bodies in a 3d environment?

Edit: CODE libraries... you people need help :) I'm looking for something where I can do something like "Human.walk(15)", "Human.lieDown()" and such, without having reinvent the wheel and calculate every friggin muscle myself. Does Blender/Maya have these kind of functions, or am I goingto have to build a skeleton, then put it into a reverse kinematics simulator, apply certain muscle movements and get an animation out the backend for replay? Because those are all things I don't really want to do. I would think such a basic animation was common enough that someone would have slapped something together.

Next to language, I think it's our toes that make us human. I mean, chimps have man hands kinda, but only we have those stubby useless little toes. Actually, I hear if you cut them all off, you can't stand up, so I guess there not useless, but still... they look that way. It's the first thing I notice on a newborn baby, so I guess it's instinctively how I know they are human. I suppose that's whay we killed all the neanderthal.. they had weird toes.

I really love scheme's core...

Wendy and I left after work on Thrsday, May 25th from Seatac airport, driven there by Seajay. After 14 hours of flying and layovers, we finally arrived in Bangor airport, Maine, and rented a Trailblazer for the trip. We were met at the airport by Chris Anderson, a friend of Wendy's and were escorted,

First, as to the argument that it always takes a more advanced mind to understand a lesser one...

Current Mood: complacent

In the OO world you hear a good deal about "patterns". I wonder if these patterns are not sometimes evidence of... the human compiler, at work. When I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a sign of trouble. The shape of a program should reflect only the problem it needs to solve. Any other regularity in the code is a sign, to me at least, that I'm using abstractions that aren't powerful enough-- often that I'm generating by hand the expansions of some macro that I need to write.